Eureka Project

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:11 pm

A wood test pilot was made to make sure we got all the dimensions and angles right before we cut up the brass angle. We have plenty of wood and brass is expensive. Tomorrow we'll fabricate the actual brass angle pilot

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:26 pm

A few days ago I bought a Pexto powe slip roller for $400. It was going to be scrapped because the owner could not get it to run. So I bought it and we made a new spur gear for it and re-machined another gear so everything would work. It works like a swiss watch now

. Then my partner Don came up with the idea we should machine a slot in the rolls to roll angle as well. This way we could get the radius perfect for the pilot/cow-catcher. here are a few shots of the rolls being turned. The rollers are 43" long and 3.00" OD. I also spoke with the foundry this morning and we'll have our drivers next week

. They had to wait for some fine sand to be delivered. I'll post some pictures of the brass angle for the pilot after we roll it.

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:31 pm

Thank you again everyone for your help. Here are a few pictures of the whistle I started yesterday. Almost done. Just need to make the valve and link

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:56 pm

Here are a few of the cow catcher coming together. Its made from .062" X .500" brass(the bottome angle) and .062" X .312" angle (upper bars, not on yet). I'll post more pix tomorrow and some video as well

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:23 pm

Here is a youtube link for the whistle so you can hear what it sounds like. I'm getting a hum in my speakers when the whistle blows. I think its just beacuse of the tone. The whistle does not make that humming sound lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFW3sPgKWA

Mike Walsh · Post by **Mike Walsh** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:08 pm

there has been discussion about the sound of the whistle when being videotaped/audio recorded on a steam whistle list. I believe the consensus is you must take the recording from a distance away (probably 50-100 feet) for you to be able to hear the real tone. Otherwise you will get a lot of distortion in the microphone.

just passing that along....

-mike

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:10 pm

Here is a link to youtube of a short video on rolling the brass angle for the cow catcher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AihZ_32YKA

jessebanning · Post by **jessebanning** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:21 pm

Here are a few more pix of the cow catcher coming together. Once its finished, I'm going to sand blast them and then paint them. Dan Markoff is sending me a small paint sample so I can get some paint. The driver castings should be arriving any day now.